June 16, 1877
On the 22 June I received the following Telegram
Smithfield June 22 1877 Elder W. Woodruff Brigham
floated Seventy Miles, good Condition, Phebe W
attends funeral at 10 oclok today, we sympathize
Samuel Roskelly

16 Thus my Son Brigham has lost his life apparently
for a trifle, we cannot always comprehend the
ways of Providence. There is a mystery hanging
over this affair to me. I never saw a person more
anxious to obtain an Education than He was, He has
studied untill midnight a good deal of the time for the
last two years, He has just finished his Education
and gone home to his Mother in Smithfield Cash Co
and Drowned in Bear river. He was a good young
Man, virtuous, Temperate, Honest, and lived his
Religion. He had received his Endowment. I have felt
calm, composed, and reconciled in this bereavement
I have thought that as I was doing so much
for the dead here in the Temple in St George, that it
might be necessary to have one of the family in the
spirit world. Brigham Y Woodruff was
born Jan [blank] 1857. Drowned June 16, 1877
Aged 20 years

June 17, 1877 ~ Sunday

June 17. Sunday I attended Meeting through the day
in the Meeting house Met at 10 oclok Harrison Burgess prayed
The whole ward was then organized in all its various
branches. W Woodruff then spoke 45 Minits

June 16, 1877 On the 22 June I received the following Telegram Smithfield June 22 1877 Elder W. Woodruff Brigham floated Seventy Miles, good Condition, Phebe W attends funeral at 10 oclok today, we sympathize Samuel Roskelly

16 Thus my Son Brigham has lost his life apparently for a trifle, we cannot always comprehend the ways of Providence. There is a mystery hanging over this affair to me. I never saw a person more anxious to obtain an Education than He was, He has studied untill midnight a good deal of the time for the last two years, He has just finished his Education and gone home to his Mother in Smithfield Cash Co and Drowned in Bear river. He was a good young Man, virtuous, Temperate, Honest, and lived his Religion. He had received his Endowment. I have felt calm, composed, and reconciled in this bereavement I have thought that as I was doing so much for the dead here in the Temple in St George, that it might be necessary to have one of the family in the spirit world. Brigham Y Woodruff was born Jan [blank] 1857. Drowned June 16, 1877 Aged 20 years

June 17, 1877 ~ Sunday

June 17. Sunday I attended Meeting through the day in the Meeting house Met at 10 oclok Harrison Burgess prayed The whole ward was then organized in all its various branches. W Woodruff then spoke 45 Minits